Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lashed into the Pentagon press corps Thursday morning, accusing reporters of deliberately trying to cast doubt on the success of last weekend’s U.S. airstrikes against Iranian nuclear sites in aid of what he painted as an underlying vendetta against President Donald Trump.
“You cheer against Trump so hard, it's like in your DNA and in your blood to cheer against Trump,” he scolded in an early morning briefing scheduled after Trump himself raged for the better part of 24 hours — including publicly at a NATO summit in the Netherlands — about a CNN report on leaked early assessments of the damage caused by Saturday’s B-2 bomber strikes against Iran.
